The psychologist, testified that Buck's race made him more likely to commit crimes in the future

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http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/rick-perry-death-penalty-duane-buck

Rick Perry's Big Death Penalty Decision

—By Tim Murphy
| Fri Sep. 2, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

A Texas inmate sentenced to death—in a racially charged case that now-Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said was inappropriately decided—has petitioned Governor Rick Perry and his state parole board for clemency, giving the GOP presidential candidate two weeks to decide whether to commute the sentence or grant a temporary stay of execution. In ten years as governor, Perry has presided over 235 executions, more than any other governor in modern history; only once has he granted clemency in a case where the Supreme Court hasn't already mandated it. Now, just as steps onto the national stage, he to have to confront what looks like a tough call—with GOP primary voters watching.

The inmate, Duane Edward Buck, is set to be executed by lethal injection on September 15 for murdering two people at the home of his ex-girlfriend in 1995. The issue at hand isn't Buck's innocence, but the means by which his death sentence was obtained. Prosecutors firmly established Buck's guilt, but to secure a capital punishment conviction in Texas they needed to prove "future dangerousness"—that is, provide compelling evidence that Buck posed a serious threat to society if he were ever to walk free. They did so in part with the testimony of a psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, who testified that Buck's race (he's African-American) made him more likely to commit crimes in the future. (Quijano answered in the affirmative to the question of whether "the race factor, black, increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons.")

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1. Disgusting. Quijano needs to lose his license. Perry needs to resign. n/t

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2. Quijano has made a career of this.

https://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/newsarchive/2000/20000609saldanocases.htm

Cornyn is on to something.

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3. The state has probably shot their capital-punishment case in the foot

by allowing such specious 'expert testimony' to be a factor in the verdict. IMO this case needs to be appealed right up to the US Supreme Court if necessary. I may be wrong, but I believe that even the likes of Scalia & Alito would want their names attached to any decision that allowed such blatant racism to factor-in to a capital case. Clarence Thomas? That's a different story, although I expect he'd vote however Scalia told him.

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4. This is right up Rushbo's alley melanin in your skin. That such racist are allowed to walk free...

make more likely they will be racist in the future. Republicans are devoid of a sense of irony. They are the last refuge of openly blatant racism.

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5. Wow- rarely do you see such crystal clear examples of racism

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6. K & R